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0. W. M. TAIUM, > ditor asd Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
Railroads.
Chickasaw Route,
VIA
ME MPHIS & CHARLESTON R R.
TWO PASSE NGFR TRAINS DAILY
TO
MEM HA IS, TENN.
J>v Chatfanooßa 830 a m 345 p m
‘ Stevenson 10 10 a m 520 pm
-Arr Decatur 135 pra 80> n m
Corinth 549 p n j 12 05 a m
' Grand Junction... 7J2 p m 148 a m
“
Closo connection 11 made at Memphis
with the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad lor all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
The time by this line from Chattanoo
ga to Memphis, Little Rock, and point
beyond, is tive hours quicker than by anv
other line.
Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROOK
Without Change.
No Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
emigrant tickets now selling at
THE LOWEST RATES
For further information call on or
write to J. M. SUTTON,
Passenger Agt., Caickasaw Route,
P. O. Box 224. Chattoucoga, Tenn.
AlsdnM Great Mm E’f
Time Card,
Takjng effect January 15tb, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mail.
Arrive. Depait.
Chattanooga am 8 25
Wauha f chie 840 do 8 41
Morganville 859 do 900
Trenton 916 do 9 17
Rising Fown 947 do 93S
Attalla 12 20 do 12 35
BirminL-haßi 25) do 30l
Tuscaloosa 523 do 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wallace, H. Collbran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pas3. Ag’t.
NaMfc.CMltarota HI. Lonls E’y.
AHEAD OE ALL COMPETITORS.
80-INESB MEN, TOURIST- DU ill CM DTD
EMIGRANTS, FAMILIMS, fl LDi I. SB DL ll
Tbo B**t Stojite to Lcuisville, Cincinnati, Indi
anapolis, Chicazo, anil tbe North, is via N-sli
ville.
Tl<- Kix.te to S. Louis and t.lis West is
via tleliemis.
Ttae Bet Run's t West Tenn9B3oO and Ken
turkv. Misslssipi, Arkansas and Texts to i.t is.
via HeiicEzte.
DON’T FORGET IT.
—By thu Line you fecure the—
MAXIMUM Comt'or, Salisfaeliou I
MINIMUIVI 1 Hot tier. S aliuuc.
Be sure to buy your ticxes over me
N. O. & St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER netd not go amiss; tew changes
are necessary, and such hs aie unavoida
ble are made iu Union Depots.
Through Sleepers
—BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nashvide and S\ Louis, via Cj*
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville. Nash
ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louip,
Union City and St Louis, M< Ker ziesnn
Little R ick, where connection is mad
with Through Sleepers to ail Texas p oats.
Call on or address
A. B Wbenn Atlanta, Ga.
J, H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. T.-Rooias P. A Chataneoga, Tenn.
W. L Danley, G P and T. A ,
Nashville, Tern*.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293 nuets
first and third Saturday nights of each
month. J. W. Russey. W. M.
S. H. Thttrmon, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month on Friday night, on or before
. the full moon.
W. N. Jacoway W. M.
G. M. Crabtree, Sec’iy.
Trenton Cnapter No. 60 R. A M
meets on the third Wednesday night of
each mouth,
W. A. B. Tatum H. P.
W. N. Jacoway, S c’ty.
Court of O dinary meetson first Mon
day of each month.
G. M. Ceabtree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk
W. P. jors, S reriffj
,T iscrib Coleman, Tax Receive'.
D E Tstum, Tax Collector.
Jostph K'oer, Corner.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Many of the cigarettes of the day are
made from picked-up cigar stumps.
There seems to be no diminution in
the frequency or temper of cyclones.
It cost something over $1,300 to
secure a jury in the Malley murder case.
The President has called the attention
of Congress to the troubles in Arizona.
To all appearances we stand sadly
in need of anew and more effective
Indian policy.
Ex-Secretary of State Blaine holds
that tbe United States is reponsible for
the Chili-Peru war.
Poor Captain Howgate ! Ho is still
lost. Marshal Henry liad better increase
that SSOO reward to S6OO.
The English aesthete will be enter
tained by Mr. Beecher at his Peekskill
home in June. Two of anything make
a pair.
The English Government gives Prince
Leopold $50,000 a year to support his
new wife—a splendid salary for the work
he does.
The Prince of Wales wrote in the au
graph album of the historian, Bancroft,
“Not ‘Ours,’ but yours truly, Albert
Edward,”
A New York company is making ar
rangements for heavy importations of
ice from Norway tbe present year, to
•upply the demand.
It is reported the outlook through the
State of Kentucky taken as a whole, is
very promising, and crops bid fair to
fully make up for the disastrous season
of 1881. _
The lack of good faith on the part of
Indian Agents may have had something
to do with the recent outbreak. Such
things have been heard of in the past.
And now wo have it that Miss Nellie
Arthur has large brown eyes and short
brown hair, and that she is as chubby as
a cherub—altogether, a very delicious
morsel.
The Government hangs three Indian
murderers, whereupon the Indians, in re
taliation, murder a hundred innocent
whites. This is “Indian Policy ’ with a
vengeance.
A bill has passed the Rhode Island
Senate providing that no license to sell
intoxicating liquors shall be granted in
those towns where, at the anuual town
meeting in April, the people shall vote
to grant no licenses.
Mob law is becoming almost too com
mon a thing in Indiana. If matters
keep on as they have been going the
past few weeks, it will not be long before
the judiciary in the State will be entirely
dispensed with in criminal matters.
The National Forestry Convention at
Cincinnati has excited considerable inter
est on the subject of tree planting. We
6hall expect within the next few years to
see the country dotted with young groves.
Land can be put to no better puspose.
The proprietor of a restaurant at Fre
mont, Ohio, who found an onyx pin, set
with diamonds, and failed to return it to
the young lady who had lost it, was
bound over to Court in the sum of SSOO,
on the charge of larceny.
The trial of the Malley boys for the
murder of Jennie Cramer is now in pro
gress at New Haven, Conn. Miss
Blanche Douglass, also implicated in the
murder, is said to be an intensely in
terested listener to the testimony as it
is adduced.
A Cincinnati woman visited a small
pox patient, despite the protests of her
husband, “just to see what the disease
looked like.” She caught the contagion
uid conveyed it to her husband and only
-hild. Both parents died and the child
survived. Her curiosity was doubtless
gratified.
The President’s son Allen appears to
have fallen desperately in love with Miss
Maude Crowley, the pretty daughter of
the Representative from Lockport, and
is said to haunt the Crowley parlors at
the Arlington, morning, noon, and even
ing, bringing daily to his inamorata a
lavish bouquet from the White House
conservatories.
The statement comes that Jews in
Russia are marrying at the rate
of 150 couples a day in anticipation
that by so doing farms will be given them
in America. To begin with, Jews, as a
class, would not farm under any circum
stances, and furthermore. A) lerica is
not giving farms to her own people,
much less foreigners.
“Fai'.hfal to the Right, Ftarltsi Against Wrong.”
Hon. Will Cumback, of Greensburg,
Ind., gives it as his opinion that the
mob who hanged Garrett at Greensburg
were Kentuckians, hailing from -the
former home of the murdered man
Walton. He bases his opinion on the
public feeling at St. Paul, the home of
Walton and Garrett,where he says, there
was no disposition to do injury to
Garrett since his acquittal as as acces
sory to the crime.
"While the Government is considering
the feasibility of protecting American
subjects in Ireland, and the advisability
of going to war with Russia in behalf of
the persecuted Jews in that country, it
will do well to give a moment’s thought
to the unprotected frontiersman of our
own land. If it can’t protect subjects at
home, it were worse than folly to talk of
securing freedom and happiness for the
persecuted in foreign lands.
The message of rebuke to the Cabinet,
sent by the citizens of Tucson, Arizona,
asking that better protection be afforded
them against the murderous Apaches,
and less money expended on the grand
military display anticipated at Fortress
Monroe, is very fitting and doubtless de
served. A great deal of money is ex
pended on more than worthless displays,
which it would be humanity to use in
the protection of those who are in con
stant peril of their lives.
Susie Green, says a contemporary, had
her pick from among the young men ol
Lexington, Kv., for she was handsome
and rich; but she preferred a gambler ol
the flashiest kind. He was known tr
her for a month as a stock broker, and
at the end of that brief courtship sin
married him. They stopped at a Louis
ville hotel on their bridal tour. Ht
brought her a lemonade in her room,
and she found it bitter. He had put an
opiate in it. When she was unconsciou
he stole her purse and $2,500 worth of
diamonds, and deserted her.
One Methodist clergyman in Cleve
land said that the newspapers of to-daj
are a powerful o’ly of Christianity.
Another said that editors would not dart
talk as they write. A third said that
he knew a reporter who became a Chris
tian and found he could not continue it
the business. Doubtless all spoke th
truth. As to the reporter, probably h<
had never taught himself to write truth
fully, and was therefore a disgrace to the
profession. The other two statement*
are accounted for upon the presumption
that one of the clergymen in question
took a respectable paper, while the other
was a patron of one of the few disrepu
table sheets that are published in the
country.
Mrs. Tabor, the wife of the Lieut,en
int-Governor of Colorado, has filed a
petition in court asking that the fine
house in which she lives, said to be
worth $150,000, shall be set apart as her
exclusive property, and that $50,000 a
year be granted her for living expenses.
Her husband is worth, or is said to be.
from $7,000,000 to $8,000,000. She ac
cuses him of infidelity, while he repre
sents himself as willing to give her a
divorce, the house and $3,000,000 if she
will sue for a separation, which she re
fuses to do. “The case,” it is alleged,
“will hardly go to trial as it would cre
ate a fearful scandal, in which the best
people would be involved.” If such
people are ‘ ‘ the best ” in Colorado, what
must the worst he ?”
It mas be interesting to our lady
readers to know how Princess Helena,
of Waldeck, was dressed at her marriage
a tew days ago to Prince Leopold, the
last son of the Queen of England. The
wedding dress was given to the Princes*
by her sister, Queen of Holland, and
was made in Paris. The petticoat was
of the richest white satin, with several
small openings near the bottom, showing
a thick wreath of orange blossoms and
myrtle underneath it, trimmed with two
robings of the costliest point d’Alencon
lace coming down either side, turned
with square corners toward a white satin
train, in the draperies of which it disap
pears. The train is of immense length,
aud literally sown with flakes of silver,
white large bouquets of fleur de Its in re
lief, embroidered in silver all down the
center of it. It was edged with sln ll
like flutings of satin, intermingled with
point d’Alencon. The dress has short
sleeves, trimmed to match, with point
d’Alencon and wreaths of myitle and
orange blossoms.
J. Higgins, in the Popular Science
Monthly, writes that experiment has
shown that animals confined in a close
apartment whet < they must inhale over
and over again t-lieir own exhalations,
develop tubercle of the lungs, and that
human beings are no less injured by
breathing the air of poorly ventilated
rooms, he thinks is proved by the fact
that of eleven preachers who died during
eight years in the oounty of Philadel
phia eight died of consumption.
THE FACTS AT LAST.
HOW THE CONFEDERATE SFECIE WAS
DISTRIBUTED.
\n Authentic Account by Gen. Dibrell, Who was
in Command of the Davis Escort and
Money Train.
[Washington Post ]
[Gen. G. G. Dibrell—now a member
I Congress from Tennessee—contributes
he following authentic and circumstan
tial account of the disposition of the
Confederate specie about which so much
tas been said since the publication of
Gen Joe Johnston’s first statement.—
Ed. Post.]
On the 12th day of April, 1865, I re
ceived a few miles below Raleisrb, N. C.,
•in order from Maj. Gen. Wheeler to
oroeeed at once with my cavalry com
mand, composed of a part of my own
Tennessee brigade, commanded by Col.
W. S. McLemore, and the Kentucky
brigade, commanded by 001. W. C. P.
Breckinridge, and Wmgin’s Arkansas
B'.ttery, to Greensboro, N. C., and there
report to Gen. John C. Rreckinridue, the
Secretary of War, and President Davis.
We had that day at Butler’s bridge, be
'ow Raleigh, learned certainly of the
disaster of Gen- Lee’s Army. In obedi
ence to that order we passed through
Raleigh and marched fifteen or twenty
niles that night. The next night we
-amped above Hillsboro, and the next
eached Greensboro about 12 o’clock at
tight, and reported in person with Col.
Breckinridge, first to Gen. Breckinridge,
nd then to Mr. Davis. We left Greens
'oro the next evening, moving south.
Vt Lexington we awaited dispatches
Tom Gens. Breckinridge and Jos. E
Fohnston in regard to the surrender or
terms of surrender proposed by Gen.
Sherman, and then moved on to Ohar
otte. N. C , where we were joined by
he commands of Gens. J. C. Vaughn
nd Basil W. Duke, which had c un'
teross from western Virginia. After
wards we w<gre joined by Gen. Fergu
son’s brigade. At Charlotte, Gen. Breck
inrhlee, who was a Major General in the
Confederate States Army, assumed com
pand of all the troops along in person
fad* are orders. Up to this tune my
ommand of Tennesseans and Kentuck
ins had done all of the guard picket
tnd scouting duty, and contemn to di
<o until surrendered. On giving Char
otte we marched on through South
Carolina, encountering large numbers ol
Jen. Lee’s soldiers who had been pa
led and on their way to their
homes.
At Abbeville, S. C,, on the 2d of May,
tfter having gone into camp, Col. Bragg
ent for me and showed me the terms ol
surrender agreed ufln by Gens Sher
nan and Johnston, which included ah
>f Gen. Johnston’s army. That night a
conference of officers was held at the
residence of til Hon. Mr. Burt, in Ab
beville, at which were present Mr. Da
vis, Gens. Breckinridge, Bragg, Vaughn,
Duke, Ferguson, Col. Breckinridge and
myself. After a full and free discussion
>f the situation, the condition of the
troops, etc., it was agreed that we would
nove at 11 o’clock that night across the
Savannah river into Georgia, near
Washington, and there surrender such
if the cavalry as did not wish to go to
the trans-Mississippi department. It
was also agreed there that the troops
diould the next day be paid a part of
the specie on hand. When orders were
issued to move, I was requested to fur
nish transportation for the specie, and
the quartermaster furnished four wagons.
The specie train was placed immediate
Iv under the control of Gen. Duke, who
delivered it safely the next day to Gen.
Breckinridge at his headquarters, where
it was divided as heretofore published.
Tn the conference of officers held the
night previous, Mr. Davis inquired par
ticularly as to the condition of each com
tnand, whether they could be relied up
on in an emergency. I remember stat
;ingfor my command, commanded by
Cols. McLemore and Breckinrigde, and
the artillery commanded by Capt. Wig
gins, that they had remained true and
intact, were under good discipline, and
never refused to do duty either as scouts,
picket, or guards and were as ready to
march to battle as taey had always been.
Each officer was asked in turn in regard
to his command, and my statements
were corroborated by Col. Breckinridge
when he was interrogated.
Mr. Davis had had the company of
Capt. Given Campbell, of the First
Kentucky cavalry, as an escort, and he
decided to leave next day with his es
cort, staff, and a few others. On going
into camp near Washington, Ga., on the
3d of May, the specie train was parked
at Gen Breckinridge’s headquarters,
and that inteuded for the troops was
turned over to Maj. E. C. White, chief
quartermaster of my command, he being
the ranking quartermaster present, who,
after c rnnting the money turned over
to him, and receiving the pay rolls of
each command present, paid out and
furnished me a statement of the amount,
which 1 had misplaced, but Col. W. C.
P. Breckinridge having retained a copy
furnished it to me, wnieh is as follows,
to wit:
To amount received of Confed
erate States government... $108,322 90
By amount paid Capt. JBr ggs, A.
Q. M., Dibrell’s brigade 29,677 GO
By amount paid Maj. W. J. Brad
ley, Q. M., Breckinridge’s
brigade 15,842 30
By amount paid Capt. ClayPrfce
A. Q. M., Ferguson’s brig
ade 25,477 96
By amount paid Capt. J. D.
Floutt, A. Q. M., Vaughan’s
brigade 12,781 80
By amount paid Ma j. D. H.Flew
ellen, A. Q. M., Duke’s brig
ade 1 < ,192 00
Bv amount paid (’apt. W. F. Bell
' A. Q. M., Ninth Kentucky
Regiment ;• 100 00
By amount paid Gen. J- C.
Breckinridge and twenty-
four men . 630 00
By amount paid thirty-one en
gineer troops with G0n.8... 813 75
By amount, paid ah rty-six men
of various commands per or- _ .
der of Gen. Breckinridge... 945 00
By amount paid Gen. Dibrell
and thirteen officers at di
vision headquarters 341 25
By amount paid twentv - six
scouts,Dibrell’sdivision... .. 682 50
By amound paid t enty-six
courriers, Dibrell’t division 682,0
By amount paid Wiggin”s bat
terv, eifih y four tnen 2,200 00
By amount paid qnai erinasters
bet arlment, Dibrell’ divis
ion, twenty two men 577 50
By amount pa and C S. depart
ment, Dibrell’s divis on,
fou teen men 369 50
Balance 66 84
$108,322 90
After this money was paid out upon
pay rolls made out by the officers pres
ent, our command went into camp to
await a Provost Marshall to whom we
could surrender. Some of our men went
on and were paroled at Augusta, and
in all our march from Greensboro to
Washington, Ga., the two brigades above
were well organized well armed and
equipped and splendidly mounted, and
were, all in all, equal to any command
in either army in every respect. Thev
bad done as much hard fighting, hard
marching and suffered as much hardship
as auv troops in the armv, and when
tbe last davs of the Confederacy came
they surrendered in good faith like true
and gallant soldiers, I have no
doubt, have respected their paroles to
this day.
I am induced to speak thifs of my
command on this march, because several
parties writing upon this subject have
characterized the cavalry .along with
Mr. Davis as irregular cavalry, and have
Rated that they clamored for a division
of the sneoie. This, so far as the gallant
Kentucky and Tennessee brigades and
Wiggin’s Arkansas battery is concerned
is untrue. Thev were regular cavalry
and artiliery under good discipline and
remained true to tbe very last. The
division or payment to them of the
small amount received was unsolicited
upon their part; was in accordance to
an agreement made hv the officers with
Gen. Breckinridge the previous night
without their knowledge or|procurement.
There was no halting or speech making
until the Savannah river was crossed
and a general halt or lered.
Capt, Lot Abraham, of the Fourth
lowa Cavalry, was sent from Augusta to
oarole us. The paroles were all made
out on the 9th of May, when Cant.
Abraham notified me he had been in
structed by Gen. Upion to take all the
horses from the private soldiers. I de
clined to surrender to him. and told him
T would march back to North Carolina
and surrender to Gen. Sherman ; that
all of our horses were private property,
and under the terms of Gen. Johnston’s
surrender all private property was to be
respected.
At his iuggestion, Gen. Vaughn, Capt.
Coffin and McKenney went with him to
Augusta and telegraphed the situation
to Gen. Wilson, who telegraphed hack to
allow the soldiers to keep their horses,
all of which were the private property
of the soldiers.
On the Uth of May we were all pa
roled and stated for our homes in a body.
Near Cleveland, Tenn., we were met by
a request itom the proyxist marshal at
Cleveland to come by tnat pffcce. We
did so and were immediately surround
ed by an infantry guard, and a vigorous
search of the person and baggage of ev
ery soldier instituted, until stopped by
Col. Smith, of the One Hundred and
Fifty fourth Illinois Regiment, an ex
ceedingly gallant and clever gentleman,
but tve were sent under guard to Chat
tsnooga, where Gen. Juda was com
manding, but a cert tin provost marshal
named St. Sargent took all tbe horses
from the soldiers, allowing the officers
to retain theirs, claiming to act under
orders from Gen. Thomas, which proved
to be false. The soldiers thus dismount
ed contrary to the express terms of the
surrender and the instructions of Gen.
Wilson, left immediately for their
homes, some by rail and the balance on
foos. Gen. Williams having joined us,
proceeded immediately to Nashville and
got an oid >r for the return of our horses
tiken from Breckinridge’s brgide, and
Col. McLemore got our order for his,
nd they both sent back and got most
f their'horses, but before the order was
received and the others sent for, the
Tennessee brigade had lost 250 head of
valuable horses The quartermaster had
turned them in a dry lot without food
or water* Many had died and a num
ber were too poor to'travel and were left
by the wayside. The loss of 250 head
of horses was a serious loss to the gal
last soldiers, who had just returned to
their deflated homes penniless and
with nothing with which to start a crop.
The foliowi% i? a copy of the last
official order issued by me, which was
furni hed me recently by Lieut. John
A Lewis, Adjutant of the Ninth Ken
tucky cavalry, viz:
HEAnerafters Cavalry Division, May
5, 1865. —Coinmau‘lirig officers w.ll iramf
(I ately make known to their command that
they are expected to conduct themselves as
soldiers and gentlemen. All who are tin-
TERMS-SI OO psr Annum fdrieiy in Advance.
willing to do this are respectfu'ly requested
to send up furloughs for approval and will
leave their command. No depredations will
be allowed, either now or upon the march,
or after they are paroled. All soldiers guilty
of offences will he turned over to the civil
authorities. Bokliers who cannot refrain
from shooting in and around camps are re
quested to take furloughs and go where
th.-ir s-hooting will not endanger the lives of
their comrades, or violate the rules of good
ord r and discipline. Read this to all your
men.
G. G. Dibrell, Brigadier General.
Official: J. M. Hines, A. A. Gen. and C.
Every officer and soldier who saw this
command, admired its good discipline
and soldierly bearing, and all who saw
them in battle admired their gallantry.
Commanded by such officers as Breckin
ridge and McLemore and a splendid
corps of regimental and line officers, they
could not be othewise than under good
discipline and brave and gallant soldiers
and when they in good faith laid down
their arms and accepted a parole, as true
brave and good a set of men as ever
bre tiled the breath of life, became
good citizens. Justice to their memory
demands that I should say this and de
fend them against the charge of being
irregular cavalry or clamorous for any
thing. G. G. Dibrell.
Washington, April 12, 1882.
HUMORS OF THE DAT.
The man who is corned is very apt to
get on his ear and stalk off.
A man eats cloves between acts so that
not a breath of suspicion may be cast on
bis temperance character.
Always look on the bright side; a
mighty ugly hired girl can ring the heU
for a mighty good dinner.
It may be said of the “belle of the
ball ” that when she bows assent to an
invitation to the dance, “she stoops to
concur.”
Bartenders are the most sociable set
on earth. They break the ice oft
ener and finer than anybody.—Bloom
ington Eye.
Don’t throw away your old flour-bar
rels. They are useful. It has been
found that an ordinary flour-barrel will
hold 678,900 silver dollars.
Wherein is the average church con
gregation better than the highwayman?
Does it not make the poor preacher
stand and deliver every Sunday?
“ The muses kiss with lips of flame,”
says a recent poet of the new order.
Then we are thankful that we are not
courting any of the muses just now.
We don’t wish to have our mustache,
burned off.
“You just ought to see how I was pay
ing attention to Miss Flapjack out at the
picnic.” “ Did you speak to her ?” “O
no ; I didn’t proceed to that extreme,
but I patted her poodle dog on the back
when she wasn’t looking.”— Austin Sift
ings.
“Dear, dear!” exclaimed Mrs. Brown.
“I have just been over to see Clara.
Poor child! She is dying of ennui.”
“Why, how you talk!” cried Mrs. Home
spun; then, adding, as she moved away
from her visitor: ‘‘ Mercy 1 ’Tain’t ketch
in’, is it!”
“Gentlemen of the jury,” said a
blundering counsel, in a suit about a lot
of hogs, “there were just thirty-six in
the drove. Please remember the fact—
thirty-six hogs; just three times as many
as in that jury box, That
counsel didn’t gain his case.
The lecturer began: “There is a for
-1 tune lying in wait—” Up jumped a
bullet-headed fellow in the northeast
corner to remark: “ Well I guess you’re
’bout right, there, mister. There’s Bill
Jones, tiie butcher. Three years ago
he wasn’t wuth a dollar. He’s got a
fortin now. Got it, as you say, by ly
ing in weight.” The bullet-headed man
said no more, but the lecturer was ill at
ease during the entire evening. —Boston
Ti anscript.
She was bright eyed and rosy cheeked;
in fact, very pretty. She arranged two
car seats so that she might have abund
ant room. Then she opened her book
satchel and began to take notes of her
morning lesson. How charming to see
the young female mind develop, thought
we.' She took notes just three minutes,
and then, oh, horrors ! she unfolded a
flash story paper and read slush for half
an hour. Her beauty faded so rapidly
that when she left the car we thought
she was the plainest person we ever
saw.
“Goodmorning, Fogg,” said Brown,
briskly. “How did you like the opera
last night ?” Oh so-so,” answered Fogg,
moodily; “nothing striking about it,
excepting the drum-sticks.” “Come,
come,” returned Brown, “be serious.
Didn’t you think that bravura passage
pizzicato and appogiatura embellish
ments were lovely!” “Guess I didn’t
see it,” replied Fogg as before; “ there
was only feathers aud flowers and things
on the one in front of me.” “ What are
you talking about, man?” exclaimed
Brown. “That girl’s hat, of course.
Wasn’t you?” “Good morning,” said
Brown, as he turned the comer.
A sad illustration of the terrible blight
which hereditary syphilis may be, is re
lated by a physician of Manchester,
England. A boy at ten years of age, a
subject of this disease, was afflicted with
an inflammation of the eyes that per
mantly impaired vision; later, with an
inflammation of the throat that de
stroyed the soft palate; at eighteen the
parts of the bones of the legs decayed
and came away; at twenty the si uU
showed signs of dead bone on the right
side of the forehead. 4
NUMBER 22.